Leave it to the marketing geniuses at Comme ça (in The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas) to come up with the dopiest — no, not “dopest,” dopiest — publicity photo of 2011. How do you publicize your fine, French bistro where New Year’s Eve prix fixe dinners go for $195 a tete? Well, of course, you do so by depicting a pair of threesomes-to-be (phallic symbol oh-so-casually situated in the foreground) having cocktails … plus a few little triangles of bread, in a tableau that could have been staged in any of hundreds of places in Las Vegas. Sacrebleu! It’s a restaurant, you’re promoting, not a nightclub with slammin’ bottle service, mes garçons! Gosh knows, there’s no marketing message in Vegas quite so unhackneyed as, “HOT CHICKS! (And a soupçon of miniscule appetizers, peut-etre.)”
Mais oui? Non!
I think the last time I was in Champagne’s Cafe I saw a couple of these women.
Yes. Perfect publicity photo. All Vegas is hype. Look at the photo: Young girls, well posed. Young men. Good complexions, smiles, indications of wealth and merriment.
What could be a better photograph for a restaurant? The food? A customer’s review? Facts?